Tag: aerial photos
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Navigating the history of Norman Creek
While I continue to neglect my own website, I did recently find time to contribute to someone else’s. In collaboration with Trish FitzSimons, who recently produced a wonderful series of short films featured in the Museum of Brisbane’s Navigating Norman Creek exhibit, and with support from the Brisbane City Council’s Community History Grant, I contributed…
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Uncovering Langsville Creek, Part 1
This page is part of a series: This is the first in a series of posts about Langsville Creek, which was Western Creek’s upstream neighbour on the Toowong/Milton Reach. I do not intend to research Langsville Creek fully at this stage, as I have too much still to learn about Western Creek. But I couldn’t…
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Brisbane,1946… on Google Earth!
As a certain amply-sized entrepreneur of self-branded cleaning products used to say, “I’m excited!” I’m excited because I’ve just made a new gallery featuring aerial imagery from 1946 (the earliest of Brisbane, as far as I know) as you’ve never seen it before: in Google Earth! Even better, you can see the difference between then…
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Fun with maps
The icon at the top of this page, and the fuller version on the homepage, features a depiction of Western Creek from A.R. McKellar’s 1895 map of Brisbane overlaid onto the modern landscape. For me, this fusion captured the essence of what the site is about: gaining a deeper understanding the modern landscape though an…